The Pomander of Prayer, Litany – Part 12
O God the Father of heauen: hauehave mercy vponupon vsus miserable sinners. O God the father of heauen. &c
O God the sonne redemer of the world: hauehave mercy vponupon vsus myserable sinners. O God the sonne, redemer of. &c.
O God ye holy Ghost proceding frō the Father & the sōne: hauehave mercy vpō vsus miserable sinners. O God the holi Ghost proceding &c
O holy, blessed, & glorious Trinitie, thre persōs & one god: hauehave merci vpō vsus miserable sinners. O holy blessed and glorious. &c.
Remember not Lorde our offē ces, nor the offēces, of oure forefathers nether take thou vengeaunce of oure sinnes. Spare vsus good lord, spare thy people whō thou hast redemed with thy most precious bloud, and be not angry with vsus for euer. Spare. vsus good Lorde.
From all euill & mischief, from sinne, from the crafts & assaults of the deuill, from thy wrath, & from euerlastyng damnation. Good Lorde deliuer vsus.
From all blindnes of hart, from pride vaine glory and hipocrisy, from enuy hatred and malice, & all vncharitablenes. Good Lorde deliuer vsus.
From fornication and all deadly sinne, & from all the deceits of the world, ye fleshe & the Deuill. Good Lorde deliuer vsus.
From lightenīges and tempests, from plague, pestilence & famine, from batell and murder, and frō sodain death. Good Lorde delyuer vsus.
From all sedition and priui conspiracie, from all false doctrine & heresy, from all hardnes of hart, and contempt of thy wurde and Commaundemente. Good Lorde deliuer vsus.
By the mistery of thy holy incarnation, by thy holy natiuitie and and circumcisiō, by thy baptisme fasting and temptation. Good Lorde deliuer vsus.
By thine agony & bloudy sweat, by thy cros and passion, by thy precious deathe & buriall, by thy glorious Resurrection and ascē cion, and by the comming of the holy Ghost. Good Lorde deliuer vsus.
In all time of our tribulation, in al time of our welth, in the hour of death & in the day of iudgmēt. Good Lorde deliuer vsus.
We sinners doo beseeche thee, to hear vsus O Lorde God, and that it may please thee to rule and go uern thy holy Churche vniuersally in the right way. We beseeche thee to hear vsus good lorde.
That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true wurshipping of thee, in righteousenes and holines of life, thy seruaunt Elizabeth oure moste gratious Queen & gouernoure. We beseeche thee to hear vsus good lorde.
That it mai please the, to rule her hart in thy faith, feare, and louelove and that she may euermore hauehave affiaunce in thee, and euer seek thy honour and glory. We beseeche thee to hear vsus. &c.
That it may please the to be her defender and keper, geuing her the victori ouer all her enemies. We beseeche thee to hear vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Pastoures and Ministers of the Churche, with true knowledg and vnderstanding of thy wurde: and that bothe by their preaching and living they may set it furthe and shew it accordingly. We beeseche thee to hear vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to endu the Lordes of the counsell, & all the Nobilitie, with grace wisdom, and vnderstanding. We beseeche thee to hear vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to bles and keep the magistrats, geuing them grace to execute iustice and to maintain truthe. We beseeche thee to hear vsus &c.
That it may please thee to blesse and keep all thy people. We beseeche thee to hear vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to geue to all nations vnitie, peace, and concorde. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to geue vsus an hart to louelove and dread the, and diligently to liue after thy Commaundements. We beseeche thee to hear vsus.
That it may please thee to geue all thy people increace of grace, to hear meekly thy wurd, and to receiue it with pure affecciō, & to bring foorth the fruits of ye spirit We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to bring into the way of truthe, all suche as hauehave erred and are deceyued. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to strēgthen suche as doo stand, and confort and help the weak herted & to raise vp them that fall, and finally to beat down Sathan vnderunder our feet. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to succour, help and confort all that be in daunger, necessitie and tribulation. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to preserue all that trauell by land or by water, all women labouring of childe, all sick persons & yung children, and to shew thy pitie vp on all prisoners and captiues. We beseeche thee to heare vsus &c.
That it may please thee to defēd and prouide for the fatherles children, and widowes, and all that be desolat and oppressed. We beseeche thee to heare vsus &c.
That it may please thee to hauehave mercy vponupon all men. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to forgeue our enemies, persecuters & slaūderers, & to turn their harts. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c
That it may please thee to geue and preserue to our vse, the kind ly fruits of ye earth, so as in due time we may enioy them. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
That it may please thee to geue vsus true repētance, to forgeue vsus all our sinnes, negligences, and ignoraunces, and to endue vsus with the grace of thy holi spirit, to amende oure liues according to thy holy wurde. We beseeche thee to heare vsus. &c.
¶ Sōne of God: we beseech thee to heare vsus. Sōne of God we beseeche thee to. &c.
O Lambe of God that takest a way the sinnes of the worlde: Graunt vsus thy peace
O Lambe of God that takest a way the sinnes of the world. HaueHave mercy vponupon vsus.
O Christe heare vsus. O Christe heare vsus.
Lorde hauehave mercy vponupon vsus. Lord hauehave mercy vponupon vsus.
Christe hauehave mercy vponupon vsus. Christe hauehave mercy vponupon vsus.
Lorde hauehave mercy vponupon vsus. Lorde hauehave mercy vponupon vsus.
¶ Oure father whiche art in heauen. &c.
And lead vsus not into temptaciō.
But deliuer vsus from euill.
Amen.
¶ The versicle.
O Lorde deal not with vsus after our sinnes.
¶ Answere.
Neither rewarde vsus after oure iniquities.
O God merciful father, that dispisest not the sighing of a contrite hart, nor the desire of suche as be sorowfull, mercifully assist our prayers, that we make before thee in al oure troubles and aduersities, whensoeuer they op pres vsus. And gratiously hear vsus, that those euils, whiche the craft and sutteltie of the deuill or man wurketh against vsus be brought to nought and by the prouidence of thy goodnes, they may be dispersed, that we thy seruaūts being hurt by no persecutions, may euermore geue thanks vntounto thee in thy holy Churche, through Ie sus Christ our Lorde.
¶ O Lorde arise help, and deliuer vsus for thy names sake.
O God we hauehave heard with our eares and our fathers hauehave declared vntounto vsus ye noble wurcks that thou diddest in their daies, and in the olde time before them.
¶ O Lorde arise, help vsus, and deliuer vsus for thy honour.
Glory to the father, the sonne, & to the holi ghost. Asit was in the beginning, is now. &c. Amen.
From oure enemies defēd vsus, O Christe.
Graciously looke vpō oure afflictiōs. Pitifully behold the sorowes of oure hart.
Mercifully forgeue the sinnes of thy people.
Fauourably with mercy heare oure prayers.
O sonne of Dauid, hauehave mercy vpō vsus. Bothe now and euer vouchsafe to heare vsus, O Christe.
Graciously heare vsus, O Christe, graciously heare vsus O Lorde Christe.
O Lorde, let thy merci be shewed vponupon vsus.
As we doo put oure trust in thee.
¶ Let vsus pray.
WE humbly beseeche chee, O father, mercifulli to loke vpō our infirmities, and for the glory of thy names sake, turn from vsus all those euils yt we most righteously hauehave deserued: And graunt that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, & euermore serue thee in holines and purenes of liuing to thy honor & glory, through our oneli mediatour and aduocate Iesus Christe our Lorde.
Amen.
¶ A prayer for the Queens Maiestie▪.
O Lorde our heauenly Father high & mighty, king of kings, Lorde of Lordes, the only ruler of Princes, whiche doost from thy throne beholde all the dwellers vponupon the earth: moste hartely we beseeche thee with thy fauour to beholde our moste gratious souerain Lady Queen Elizabeth, and so replenish her with the grace of thy holy spirit that she may alway incline to thy will and walke in thy way. Indue her plentifully with heauenli gifts. Graunt her in helth and welth long to liue, strength her that she may vanquish and ouercome all her enemies. And finalli after this life, she may attain euerlasting ioi and felicitte. Thorow Iesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
¶ For rain if the time require.
O God heauenly father whiche by thy sonne Iesus Christe, hast promised to all thē that seek thy kingdom and the righteousnes therof, all things necessary to theyr bodely sustenaunce: sed vsus we beseeche thee in this oure necessitie suche moderat rain & shoures that we may receiue the frutes of the earth to our cōfort, and to thy honor, through Iesus Christ our Lorde.
Amen.
¶ For faire wether.
O Lord God, which for ye sinne of mā diddest once drowne all the world except eight persons, and afterward of thy great mercy diddest promise neuer to destroy it so again, we humbly besech thee, that although we for our iniquities hauehave wurthely de serued this Plague of raine and waters: yet vponupon our true repē taunce, thou wilt sende vsus suche weather, wherby we may receiue the fruites of the earth in due season, and learne bothe by thy punishment to amend oure lyues, and for thy clemency to geue the praise & glory, through Iesus Christ our Lorde.
Amen.
¶ A praier of Chrisostome.
ALl mighty God whiche hast geuen vsus grace at this time with one accorde to make our cō mon supplicacions vntounto thee, & doost promise: that when. ii. or iii. be gathered in thy name, thou wilt graunt their requests: fulfil now (O Lorde) the desires and peticions of thy seruauntes, as may be moste expedient for thē: graūting vsus in this world know ledge of thy truthe, and in the world to come life euerlasting.
Amen.
¶ In the time of dearth & famin.
O God heauenly father, whose gift it is yt the rain doth fal, the earth is frutefull, beastes increace, and fishes doo multiply. Beholde we beseche thee, the afflictions of thy people, & graunt that the scarcitie & dearth (which we doo now most iustli suffer for oure iniquitie) may through thy goodnes be mercifully tourned into cheapnes and plenti, for the louelove of Iesu Christ our Lord: to whom with thee and the holy ghost. &c.
¶ Or thus.
O God mercifull father, whiche in the time of Heliseus the Prophet, didst sodēly turn in Samaria, great scarcitie and dearth into plenty and cheapnes, and extreme famine into aboundāce of victuall: hauehave pitie vponupon vsus, ytnow be punished for oure sins with like aduersitie, encrease the frutes of the earth by thy heauē ly Benedictiō: And graunt that we receiuing thy bountifull liberalitie, may vse the same to thy glory, our confort, and relief of our nedi neighbours, through Iesus Christ our Lorde.
Amen.
¶ In the time of warre.
O Almighty God, King of all kings, and gouernour of all thinges, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belōgeth iustli to punish sinners & to be mercifull vntounto them that truly repēt: saue & deliuer vsus (we humbly beseeche thee) from the hāds of our enemies, abate their Pride, asswage theyr malice, & confound their deuises, that we being armed with thy defence, may be preserued euermore frō all perils to glorify thee, whiche art the only geuer of all victory: through the merites of thy only sōne Iesus Christe oure Lorde.
Amen.
¶ In the time of any common plage or sicknes.
O Almighty God: which in thy wrath in the time of king Da uid didst slea with the plage of pestilence thre score & ten thousand, & yet remembring thy mercy, diddest saue the rest: hauehave pity vppon vsus miserable sinners, that now are visited with greate sicknes & mortalitie, that like as thou diddest then commaunde thine▪ angell to cease from punishing: So it may now please the to withdraw frō vsus this plague and greuous sicknes, throughe Iesu Christ oure Lorde.
Amen.
The ende of the letany.